The girl tore the hair from her head and involuntarily swallowed. She was diagnosed with Rapunzel syndrome, which is a rare condition.
An 11-year-old girl from the Czech Republic underwent surgery on Tuesday to remove a mass of hair from her belly the size of a pint of beer.
The girl, whose identity has not been revealed, suffers from Rapunzel syndrome. To date, only a few dozen people in the world have been diagnosed with this condition associated with trichotillomania and trichotillomania. Psychopathy is characterized by an uncontrollable urge to pull and swallow your own hair. The patient may experience severe abdominal pain and weight loss.
The skein is approximately 20 cm long and 8 cm in diameter. According to doctors, the hairball was too big to be removed orally, so the procedure chosen was laparoscopy – a technique that uses small incisions to reach the stomach, and is also used in some types of bariatric surgery. .
“If we don’t remove the forelock, the girl will feel pain and gradually lose weight. In extreme cases, this can lead to the destruction of the stomach walls and its perforation”, the doctors said in an interview with Agence France. -Press.
Now, the girl was instructed to start monitoring with psychologists and psychiatrists to treat the rare syndrome.
